Relentlessly rising auto insurance rates are squeezing car owners and stoking inflation. Auto insurance rates rose 2.6% in March and are up 22% from a year ago. Premium costs have been marching steadily higher since 2022, even as inflation at the consumer level steadily cooled from its 9.1% peak in the middle of that year. Consumers have had some relief as the rate of cost increases for food and energy, two key components of most budgets, has eased greatly. But auto insurance and car...
Workers at a Chattanooga VW plant voted 3-to-1 to join the UAW, a choice Tennessee's governor called "a mistake."
Drivers are feeling the pain of insuring their vehicles as prices for car insurance premiums surge - and drivers in California pay even more.
Advertisement Money expert Clark Howard says you’re not alone if you’ve experienced “shell shock” at how much your auto insurance has gone up. By the end of 2023, each of the ten largest auto insurers raised their rates by double digits! And many companies are continuing to raise rates this year. Even if you’ve got
Fertility rates in the United States hit a record low in 2023, according to provisional data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday.
Australian inflation has come in hotter than expected after lifting 3.6 per cent in the 12 months to March. But the consumer price index also cooled from 4.1 per cent in the previous corresponding year, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported. On a quarterly basis, inflation rose one per cent, up from 0.6 per cent […]
Today, the Commerce Department released a snapshot of its growth report for the first quarter. The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by just 1.6 percent, its slowest pace in nearly two years. Further, inflation rates have also risen dramatically. Many economists are describing this as “the worst of both worlds.” Economists polled by Reuters […]
Biden Calls For Record High 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Rate By John Kartch of Americans For Tax Reform President Biden has formally proposed the highest top capital gains tax in over 100 years. Here is a direct quote from the Biden 2025 budget proposal: “Together, the proposals would increase the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends to 44.6 percent.” Yes, you read that correctly: A Biden top capital gains and dividends tax rate of 44.6%. Under the...
President Biden notched the lowest approval rating, 38.7%, of any president at this point in their first term in office, according to Gallup.
The Federal Trade Commission earlier this week voted to ban noncompete contracts for most workers in the United States. These contracts, research shows, depress wages, stifle entrepreneurial innovation and trap people in jobs they’d prefer to exit. Taken all together, says FTC head Lina Khan, they are “robbing people of their economic liberty.” Who would want to be against economic freedom, not to mention raises for America’s workers? The answer is both Republican FTC commissioners and business...
In the latest TV ratings, CBS’ FBI was Tuesday’s most-watched show and tied its two spinoffs for the nightly demo win, with ABC’s dramas once again in rerun mode (but back next week!). CBS | FBI (with 7.03 million total viewers and a 0.4 demo rating) was down a tick week-to-week (which agent might get […]
Car insurance costs are pretty brutal at the moment — they’re up more than 22% since this time last year. There’s plenty you can do to lower your bill, but some of the best advice out there still requires a certain amount of upfront cash. For example, paying your annual premium all in one go could eliminate the extra fees some insurers charge customers for paying month by month. But that may not be an option if your budget is tight and your premium has surged. Insurers have been playing catch-up...